US Filmmaker Michael Moore has asked the Bush administration to call off an investigation of his trip to Cuba to get treatment for ailing September 11 rescue workers for a segment in his upcoming health-care expose, Sicko.

US President George Bush, campaigning in a Republican stronghold for an endangered Republican senator, tried to rally his supporters today by portraying Democrats as soft on terrorists and opposed to conservative judges.

FORMER New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani yesterday would neither rule in or out his candidacy for the US presidential election in 2008.

President George Bush tonight offered the US a $673bn (€646bn) “growth and jobs” plan to stimulate the economy.